Distraught over breaking up with his girlfriend, Zia (Patrick Fugit) decides to end it all. Unfortunately, he discovers that there is no real ending, only a run-down afterlife that is strikingly similar to his old one, just a bit worse. Discovering that his ex-girlfriend has also "offed" herself, he sets out on a road trip, with his Russian rocker friend, to find her. Their journey takes them through an absurd purgatory where they discover that being dead doesn't mean you have to stop livin'!

After what one would assume to be a pretty difficult breakup with his girlfriend, Zia commits suicide. Next thing he knows he is in a world -- not unlike the one he left behind -- where everyone he meets has committed suicide. When Zia runs into someone he knew pre-suicide, he learns that his ex-girlfriend chose the same fate and was thus somewhere in this strange world. This news gives his after-life new meaning and he sets out to find her.

A story of a lonely heart setting out to find its compliment, either in a specific other person or someone unexpected who appears along the way, is nothing revolutionary. Wristcutters, as it followed that template, was in many ways like most romantic comedies you have already seen. That doesn't make this movie any better or worse by comparison, because many people still seek out as many "RomComs" as they can. What this movie did well was expand the limits within which that template may be used.

There is nothing "ordinary" about a story where a young man, who has killed himself, is stuck in a purgatory for people who claimed their own lives searching for his ex-girlfriend, who despite being the reason he killed himself, also killed herself. Will he find her? Will he meet a different girl (or guy?) who killed herself and fall in love with her? Is Wristcutters good enough for you to watch it and find out? Yes, it is.

I liked this movie, but I do think it got by mostly on the quirkiness of its setting and premise. I will admit that I'm a little too conservative to enjoy how they made suicide so matter-of-fact, but I still enjoyed the movie. I think this is more geared for teens and twentysomethings and most other people will be disappointed. Wristcutters is another "good for what it was" movie.